Breast implants, a live python and a £10,000 engagement ring were among the
most bizarre things forgotten by hotel guests last year, according to a
budget hotel chain.

Travelodge, which has more than 500 properties in Britain, claims each of the unusual items were discovered by cleaning staff inside recently vacated rooms during 2012.

Also left behind were a bucket of live crabs, a pantomime horse, a winning EuroMillions ticket, a £50,000 Rolex watch, and a set of four Power Rangers costumes.

A pilot’s training manual, a spare car wheel, the keys to a Bugatti, and a stamp album worth £250,000 were also uncovered, as were a Persian Chinchilla kitten, a food processor, a set of false teeth, a collection of 200 masks depicting the Queen, and a diamond encrusted iPhone.

"Our lost and found departments provide plenty of revelations," said a spokesman for the hotel chain. "What is becoming evident after speaking to customers is that the pace of life has become so fast and we are so eager to get from A to B that priceless processions are easily being forgotten."

He added that the winning lottery ticket was left under a mattress in Watford – but would not reveal how much the guest had won. The costly iPhone was found in London, the breast implants in Newcastle, the python in Bristol, the live crabs in Brighton, and the pantomime horse in Leeds.

Among the more common items found by staff were phone or laptop chargers, toiletry bags, satnavs, clothes, mobile phones and suitcases.

Teddy bears are also regularly forgotten by guests – Travelodge claims that 76,000 were reunited with their owners last year.

Books are also often left behind. Travelodge said more than 7,000 copies of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey were found by staff – making it 2012’s most discarded novel, ahead of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.

All items not claimed by their owner within three months are donated to Cancer Research UK.